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American English Booklet11

5. Southern Mountain

(1) rhotic

(2) diphthongization of monophthongs, can't [keint]

(3) and the reverse: monophthongization of diphthongs, mile [ma:l]

(4) word-finally [I] rather than [i]

(5) sometimes centralization of round vowels: [oV]

(6) the words greasy and grease are pronounced with [z] rather than [s].